blogging vs. posting

I loved the article by Richardson about blogging vs. posting because I feel that is where I am right now. When I look over my older posts, you can tell which ones I have actually put some deep thought into and which ones I put up because it was time to post. But is that necessarily bad?

I mean, no it's not as good as blogging but one is always going to have those days that, let's be honest, you just don't want to think anymore. I've always been told in any writing class where I've had to keep a journal that when one's brain get like that to keep on writing. Anything! One teacher even told me to just keep writing, "I don't know what to write" just so the blood in my brain would start pumping. I feel like it's a slow process and hard to do when one hasn't written a lot in awhile. Kind of like dieting. One is not able to run four miles when they ahven't been to the gym in years.

I'm also like Richardson in the sense that I read to write. Looking back on stories and essays that I have written from previous years, I can tell what I was reading at that time because I always try to mimic different styles. (Or at least test them out.) And of course for ideas. When I was taking three sociology class one semester, it seemed like the topic for all of my papers (like the ones in my other classes) I would base it around the study of gender and race. I guess you are what you read.